Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-07
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
Lord Salisbury Still FranticaiIy Hunt
ing for Material for His Cabinet.
lansJowne Declines.
A Letter from the Emperor William TO
the Crown Prince COngrRtulating
the German Army.
Scotland to Furnish Sensation in the Trial
of a Divorce Suit Against the
Marquis of Queensbury.
STILL HUNTING FOR MATERIAL.

STILL HUNTING FOR MATERIAL.
LONDON, Jan. 6.-Lord Northbrook has
decided not to accept position in the
cabinet. He has written Goschen re-
GREETING his inability TO join the ministry
in view of the conservative discomfort
and the doubtful nature of the agreement
with Salisbury. Premier Salisbury is
urgently pressing the Marquis of Lans-
downe to accept an office in the cabinet,
but the latter has cabled his declination
of the preferred portfolio. He is not will
ing to surrender his emoluments in Can
ada, especially as the revenues from his
estates are decreasing.
KAISER VII HELM TO HIS ARMY.
BERLIN, Jan. 6.-The Official Gazette
publishes the following from Emperor
William to Crown Prince Frederick Will
liam: "The army knows how near it has
always been to my heart. Understand
what feelings stir me at the thoughts Of
my having belonged to it for full eighty
years, and of the changes the army has
undergone with me during that
period. At the time of my entering the
army it lay beaten back to the furthest
confines Of the kingdom, after the severest
blow Prussia ever sustained; but the
soldierly spirit which my glorious fore
fathers implanted in it remained unbro-
ken, and it soon put forth new shoots
This was proved in those wars of liberia
ton. The noblest remembrance of my
youth is this spirit of the army preserved
through honest lsbors and long period
of peace, and it's glorious deeds
in recent times show that the same spirit
boc -, E,,Il -
has thriyen still more. have seen many
changes in the outward form of the army.
Generations have passed through under
my eyes, but in my heart and feelings the
army is rot changed. The pleasing sense
OF honor and duty before all else, and the
readiness to lay down ones life for his
country, these are the ties which bind all
the German race closely together, and now
unite the grandsons and great-grandsons
as firmly as they did their forefathers. 1t
greatly rejOices me to be permitted to
speak thus to the army, and TO say that
during these eighty years we have be-
longed to one another fully and unre-
servedly. | thank the army for it's 10y
atty and devotion to duty. Until my last
breath these feelings of love and graft
tude will remain the vivid feelings of my
heart"
4 SCOTCH DIVORCE SUIT.
EDINBURGH, Jan. The marchioness
of Queensbury has instituted an action
for divorce against her husband. the mar.
quis of Queensbury. The action will be
tried here, to begin next week.
The marquis of Queensbury is forty-two
years of age. He was married on Febru-
airy &c, 1866, to Sybil, daughter of Alfred
Montgomery, Esq, by whom he has had
four sons and one daughter.
WILL GRANT THE MILITARY ENLARGE
BENT.
BERLIN, Jan. ct is strongly believed
that the governments demands embraced
in the military bill will be conceded for
three years, possibly seven.
RUSSIA EXPELLING THE JEWS.
VIENNA, Jan. 6.-Austrian Jews are
being expelled by the wholesale from
Odessa.